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%NATURE OF REALITY-2 761013
Reality is realized through the perception of
participants who come to know reality through involvement
in real relationships. The nature of reality is twofold,
in accordance with the twofold attitude of participants.
The nature of reality is not independent of the attitude
of the participant. Participants who approach the
realization of reality with different attitudes naturally
realize different realities. This causes problems only to
the participants who are not aware that the nature of
reality depends in part upon the attitude with which they
approach it. Those participants who approach reality
with the attitude that it is essentially objective, out-
there, other to them as non-participant observer/analyzer:
They will find it impossible to cope meaningfully with
participants who are aware that their manner of approach
to reality contributes to its realization, and so to the
nature of reality as they perceive it. The exclusively
objective people via their exclusive hypothesis exclude a
wide range of meaningful perceptions of reality, so
excluding the perceptions which give meaning to
participation in reality; i.e., life.
The central question is not, "What is the nature of
reality?" Rather the central question is, "How can we
approach each other as participants so as to realize a
meaningful mutual awareness and mutual understanding of
our varied attitudes/approaches to reality and so our
varied perceptions of its nature?" This avoids the
problems created by assuming that there is but one nature
of reality which an ultimate authority can certify
correct. It avoids the problems encountered in attempting
to generate consensus as to that ultimate authority. It
avoids the alienation occasioned by the ultimate
disagreements which originate in the varied
attitudes/approaches to reality by unique participants.
Participants are an integral part of reality and the
integrity of reality is violated by an exclusively
objective approach to reality, as well as by an
exclusively subjective approach. Thus the integrity of
the participants is also thereby violated: by setting
themselves 'over against' reality they set the stage for a
drama in which they set themselves 'over against' each
other. They naturally conclude that participants are
originally evil, and that violence is innate. They
thereby fulfill the attitude/approach with which they
participate.
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